The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse charges and allowing victims to sue their abusers decades after the fact.

Since the onset of the pandemic, more families have stuck with home-schooling. According to a new poll from The Washington Post, fewer parents said they home-school due to religious beliefs compared to previous years. The survey found that the landscape of home-schooling in the U.S. is shifting from one that conservative Christians heavily dominated to…

California sued five of the world’s largest oil companies, alleging they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels and the impact on climate change. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court targeted BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips, along with the companies’ trade group, the American Petroleum Institute. In the 135-page filing,…

Pandemic-related learning loss appears to not only still be an issue, but according to new data, it is getting worse. The learning gap created during the pandemic is widening as students struggle to catch up, according to the national study released Tuesday, July 11, by the NWAE. SAN reported last year on a major drop…

Cities across the U.S. are riddled with gun violence and violent protests in France continue. These stories and more highlight the rundown for Monday, July 3, 2023. 31 people shot at Baltimore block party A mass shooting at a holiday celebration in Baltimore left two young people dead and another 28 people shot and injured.…

Two people were killed and 28 others injured in a shooting in Baltimore, according to American media reports, on Sunday (July 2). A report by Fox Baltimore said that the shooting occurred during a gathering near Brooklyn Homes. Hundreds of people had gathered in the area for an event called “Brooklyn Day,” witnesses said, adding they heard 20 to 30 shots fired. 

The report said that 10 people were taken to hospitals by the Baltimore Police and a

Baltimore City police are searching for a man who assaulted two people, sending one of them to a hospital, during an anti-abortion demonstration.

Police reform is an issue on the minds of many Americans, due to incidents like the police-related beating death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. However, some see rising crime in cities like Seattle as evidence that cutting police budgets will only lead to more violent crime. Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey says statistics…

New York City is overhauling its approach to reading instruction in response to worrying data that showed half of students in third through eighth grade cannot pass a reading assessment. Education officials in the city have said the current curriculum failed to follow the science of how students learn to read. As a result, the…